Youth Hostel (The Old Brewery House)

SP 91 NW IVINGHOE HIGH STREET

4/68 Youth Hostel (The Old Brewery House)

26.9.51

GV II

Youth hostel. Early C19. Red brick with a little vitreous brick, red quoins and window surrounds. Dentilled brick cornice to central gable and below flanking parapets. Concealed 2-span slate roofs, flanking rendered chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Outer bays have tripartite sash windows, those to ground floor without glazing bars. Upper floors of centre bay have sashes with semi-circular heads, radiating glazing bars, and painted stone impost and key-blocks. All windows have gauged brick heads. Central half-glazed door has semi-circular fanlight with ornamental glazing bars, panelled reveals and wooden doorcase with open dentilled pediment on slender Doric columns. Later 2-storey extension to right has parapet and C20 paired wooden casements. Single storey bay to far right. Rear is similar but with straight parapet, altered double doors in C20 porch, and tall scaircase window with semi-circular head, 'Y' tracery and coloured marginal glazing. Interior has early C19 doors, ornamental ceiling cornices, and staircase with plain square wooden banisters, altered newels posts, and shaped tread ends.

Listing NGR: SP9450116125